Why is the Golding's "Lord of the Flies" so titled?

Flies have long been associated with the devil and his evil.  "Beelzebub," a name for the devil, is Hebrew for "god of the fly," "host of the fly," or literally, "lord of the flies." 

Stumblling through the brush upon the pig's head, Simon, the most intuitive of the boys on the island senses the evil indicated by the killing and decapitating of this pig.  Jack and the other hunters, masked and muddy, have descended into savagery in their slaughter.  Confronted by this Lord of the Flies, Simon imagines a conversation with it.

'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!' said the head....'You knew didn't you? I'm part of you?  Close, close, close!  I'm the reason why it's no go?  Why things are what they are?....I'm warning you....We are going to have fun on this island!  So don't try it on, ny poor misguided boy, or else....we shall do you...'

Simon realizes that the evil, symbolized by the pig's head on the stick with flies swarming around it, is the evil within the boys, the evil that Jack and Roger and the others have embraced as they reject the rationality of Piggy and sensibleness of Ralph. These resulting actions underscore William Golding's theme that without the restrictions and controls of an orderly society, human beings will regress into degenerate and savage behavior.

Why does Curley's wife tell Lennie about "the letter" and what does the letter symbolize in "Of Mice and Men"?

Curley's wife tells Lennie that she once met a guy in the movie industry.  She went to a dance with him, and "he says he was gonna put me in the movies...says I was a natural".  This man said he would write to her about it "soon's he got back to Hollywood", but the promised letter never came.  Curley's wife suspects that her "ol' lady stole it", but her mother denied doing any such thing.  Curley's wife still lives with the regret brought on by the letter that never came - she says wistfully, "coulda been in the movies, an' had nice clothes...an' I coulda sat in them big hotels, an' had pitchers took of me...because this guy says I was a natural".

The letter is a symbol of a dream denied.  When she realized that the correspondence was never going to come, and that the life she wished for was never going to happen, Curley's wife married Curley, even though she "don' like Curley...he ain't a nice fella" (Chapter 5).

Where is there a physical despcription of Winston in "1984" by George Orwell?

We learn about Winston's appearance in the beginning of 1984. 

The physical description of Winston, like the description of the Victory Appartments, shows us how pathetic the average man is in 1984. Winston is scrawny, red-faced, out of shape and he has a varicose ulcer that makes it difficult for him to even climb a flight of stairs. He is unhealthy and run down. When compared to the rugged manly features of Big Brother, he seems even more pathetic.

Winston is an unlikely hero. Where most heros are above average, he is below. In fact, he is nothing like a classic hero. From his physical description, we understand we have a protagonist who is not fit for the role--he should be strong, but he is weak. This makes him more attractive on some levels, for he is very much an underdog. It is not likely that a man in his condition will succeed in changing the world. 

Are Jasper, Emenet, Edward, Rosalie, and Alice all brothers and sisters in "Twilight"?

Biologically, no, they are of no relation and never were.  As you read the series, your questions will be answered.  Carlisle saved each of his "kids" and "adopted them."  Since they never age physically as vampires, he has to keep that act up for the humans.  Since they all look like they are in high school, they all go to school and then "graduate" depending where they live.  Jasper and Alice are a couple, Emmit and Rosalie are a couple, and then Edward finds Bella.  None of them are actually brothers and sisters.  They have all come under the umbrella of Carlisle to follow his "vegetarian" style of being a vampire. So in order to live in our world, they have to pose as a "family" of adopted kids to this young and caring couple.

In the play "The Crucible", tell about Abigail's affair with John Proctor.

The affair is the main reason why the witch hunt began.  Abigail very much wanted to be with John Proctor.  However, girls were to remain pure.  Certainly, adultery was forbidden but for a young girl to have an affair with a married man would have been the most horrible crime of all.

Although we never really get the details of the affair, we know that Elizabeth and John were having troubles in their marriage.  John succumbs to his desires albeit momentarily.  When he realizes what he's done and tells Abigail the affair is over, she is scorned, jealous and hateful.  She has to find a way to get back at him.  How does she do this? 

When the group of girls is caught in the woods in what is perceived as acts of evil (dancing, singing, laughing...how could they??), the sensible people think they must have been overtaken by spirits.  Perhaps in an attempt to hide the truth, the girls continue this thinking.  Eventually, women throughout the town are accused of being witches.  John's wife is among them.

It seems that this is in keeping with the common thinking:  if I can't have him, you can't either. 

What is the area of this square in feet?Inside a square, two parallel cuts are made, as shown. The parallel cuts are 6 inches apart and they...

kmieciakp is correct about the formula for the area of a square or rectangle. It is Length x Width, NOT 2L + 2W, which is the formula for the perimeter.

I thought it might be useful to explain how you can figure out the length and width in this problem.

You know three things:

1) the large figure is a square, which means all 4 sides are the same length

2) the parallel cuts are 6 inches apart

3) the 3 rectangles made by the cuts are the same area.

We are all assuming that the cuts are parallel to one side of the square, since we don't have the drawing. I think this would have to be the case for the rectangles to be the same.

Since the 3 rectangles are the same area, and they all have a length equal to the length of the square, you can conclude that the width of all three rectangles also has to be the same. We know the distance between the cuts is 6 inches, so all three rectangles have to have a width of 6 inches.

The three rectangles take up the whole area of the big square, so the width of the square has to be 6 + 6 + 6 = 18.

Since the big figure is a square, the length and width have to be the same.

So, the area of the square is 18 inches x 18 inches, which equals 324 square inches.

You did not need to do the conversion into square feet that ladyvols and kmieciakp did -- your problem says the answer should be in square inches.

In Act II of "The Crucible", when Abigail is alone with Proctor, what claim does she make?

Abigail tells Proctor that Betty wasn't bewitched, or a witch herself, but that she had "only gone silly somehow".  She said "we were dancin' in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us.  She took fright, is all."  This is significant news, considering later when she is in danger of getting in trouble, she contradicts this claim by "confessing" to trafficking with the devil, and then naming women in the town as witches.

Later, John tells his wife what Abby had said, but leaves out the little detail that he and Abby were alone when this information was shared.  Elizabeth wants John to tell the courts, thinking that this will stop the madness, because it proves that the girls were not bewitched.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work.